Backing up large partitions

[scuba at centroin.com.br]

Hi,

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Phusion wrote:

|I need some advice on how to backup a UNIX server. The server has
|multiple large partitions ranging from 200 to 400 GB. Also, the server
|doesn't have a tape drive. We recently got a large NAS device that has
|2 TB of storage space. The UNIX server has Samba installed and can be
|setup to mount a Windows network share. I would like the ability to
|run full and incremental backups as well as restores. Let me know what
|you think.

	Take a look at rsnapshot (it's in ports), it uses rsync with 
hardlinks to decrease the size of incremental backups.
	

- Marcelo